Somme - The Stahlhelm, the Casque Adrian, and the Tin Hat Pt. 1

Battles of the First World War Podcast

Mike Cunha

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4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On June 24th, 1916, the Allied bombardment of the German trench lines at the Somme began. 3,000 guns pounded away at the enemy. The bombardment was so loud it could London.

As the shells rain down we will take a look at the armies and the men who will be fighting the Battle of the Somme, as well as the German defenses on that part of the Western Front.

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0:00.0	Seven long days there was ceaseless artillery fire, which rose ever more frequently to the intensity of drum fire.
0:10.0	The torture and the fatigue, not to mention the strain on the nerves, were indescribable.
0:17.0	There was just one single heartfelt prayer on our lips.
0:23.0	O God, free us from this ordeal.
0:26.5	Give us release through battle.
0:28.9	Grant us victory.
0:30.7	Lord God, just let them come.
0:34.7	Unter Officer Friedrich Hinkleinkle Reserve Infantry Regiment 99
0:39.2	Psalm 1916
0:42.0	Hey folks Welcome to the Batt battles of the First World War podcast episode four,
1:00.7	Somme, the Stahlhelm, the Cascaidrian, and the Tin Hat, Part 1.
1:08.8	This episode is dedicated to the memory of United States Navy Petty Officer Second Class
1:18.0	Andrew J. Clement.
1:21.9	Rest easy, my friend. You have left us far too soon.
1:29.8	On June 24, 1916, just as the day was coloring itself summer blue, 3,000 allied guns opened up on the
1:40.2	German lines on the Somme. As the first shells howled their way down to earth,
1:46.3	German soldiers threw themselves into their dugouts
1:49.3	or whatever other shelter they could find.
1:52.7	The bombardment was frightfully loud,
1:55.5	and as the Germans caught their breath in their dugouts,
1:58.3	12 meters underground, the earth around them rumbled and rolled
2:03.3	like a ship in a storm. Heavy shell impacts thudded strongly into the ground above the huddling
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